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Assessing student learning: a common sense guide.


By Linda A set of parallel processing functions added to languages, such as C and C++, that allows data to be created and transferred between processes. It was developed by Yale professor David Gelernter, when he was a 23-year old graduate student.  Suskie, Anker An´ker

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Assessing student learning is not as simple as giving a test and assigning as·sign  
tr.v. as·signed, as·sign·ing, as·signs
1. To set apart for a particular purpose; designate: assigned a day for the inspection.

2.
 a grade. Instead, assessment--mastery of a single course or effectiveness of an entire program--involves careful design, execution, scoring, and presentation. Assessing Student Learning takes the reader step-by-step through this process, providing numerous examples and exercises to clarify (company) Clarify - A software vendor, specialising in Customer Relationship Management software. Nortel Networks sold Clarify to Amdocs in 2002.

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 major points and encourage mastery of the main concepts. Useful for all who deal with student assessment, this book should be required reading for all new faculty stepping into the classroom.
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Author:Lorenzetti, Jennifer Patterson
Publication:University Business
Date:Sep 1, 2004
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